PORT ANGELES — Peninsula College students who participated in the 19th annual Sitka Whalefest in Alaska in November will reflect on their experience Thursday.
“Sitka Whalefest: Reflections and Preparations for the Future” will be the focus of the 12:35 p.m. Studium Generale presentation in the Little Theater on the Port Angeles campus, 1502 E. Lauridsen Blvd.
Students earned college credits while at the international science symposium sponsored by the Sitka Sound Science Center in Sitka.
Peninsula College students will have the opportunity to attend the symposium during the fall quarter this year.
On Thursday, the students will be joined by faculty members Barbara Blackie, Leora Gansworth and Kate Reavey.
The class was made possible through a National Science Foundation grant.
For more information, contact Reavey at kreavey@pencol.edu.
Fisheries biologist will talk in series
PORT ANGELES — Sam Brenkman, fisheries biologist for Olympic National Park, will be the presenter at the Perspectives Winter Speaker Series at the park visitor center, 3002 Mount Angeles Road, from 7 p.m. to 8 p.m. Tuesday.
Brenkman will explore some of the technologies used to unveil the distribution, abundance and migration of salmonids.
Findings from headwaters-to-sea snorkel surveys and thermal imaging will be shared.
For more information, email dean_butterworth@nps.gov or phone 360-565-3146.
Botany lecture
PORT TOWNSEND — A botany lecture with Andy MacKinnon will take place at the Port Townsend Community Center, 620 Tyler St., on Tuesday.
Social time starts at 6:30 p.m., with the program at 7 p.m.
Admission is free and open to all.
MacKinnon’s talk, “Cool Plants and their Fungal Friends,” focuses on the union of Pacific Northwest plants and fungi.
MacKinnon is a forest ecologist who lives in Metchosin, B.C.
Until his retirement in 2015, he worked for the B.C. Forest Service for three decades, mostly on the coast, where he was responsible for ecosystem classification and mapping and a program of forest ecology research focused on old-growth structure and composition, effects of climate change and B.C.’s native plants and fungi.
He is co-author of six best-selling books about plants of western North America, including Plants of the Pacific Northwest.
Caregivers class
SEQUIM — “Powerful Tools for Caregivers,” a class that helps those who care for a loved one also take care of themselves, will start Tuesday, April 19, at Trinity United Methodist Church, 100 S. Blake Ave.
The class will meet from 9 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. on six Tuesdays, ending May 24.
The cost is $30 for the textbook.
Topics include how the caregiver can reduce personal stress, deal with emotions, solve problems, communicate effectively with other family members, make difficult decisions and use community services, according to a news release.
The class does not focus on hands-on care for the care receiver.
Preregistration by Saturday is required and can be done by contacting class leaders Judy Croonquist at 360-582-1370 or Barbara Parse at 360-683-2113.
Movie on health
PORT ANGELES — The Natural Healing Clinic, 162 S. Barr Road, will offer a free alternative health movie about cancer at 4 p.m. Wednesday, April 20.
Reservations are required by calling 360-457-1515.
Open house slated
SEQUIM — The Ecovillage Dungeness CoHousing will host an open house Saturday, April 30.
The event, part of National Cohousing Open House Day, will take place at 162 S. Barr Road.
Attendees will meet at 10:30 a.m. for a video and conversation.
A potluck lunch starts at noon.
Two or three properties the group is interested in purchasing will be offered up for tours.
For more information or to RSVP, phone Rose Marschall at 360-808-2662 or Teresa Barrett at 503-206-2582, or visit www.cohousing.org/openhouse2016.
PSA scholarship
The East Jefferson Chapter of Puget Sound Anglers is offering three $1,000 college scholarships to high school students.
Students graduating from either Chimacum, Quilcene or Port Townsend High School in June 2016 are eligible.
The scholarship was created to promote interest and pursuit of studies in one of the following fields: environmental sciences, ecology, conservation, marine sciences, marine-biology or aquatic and fishery sciences.
Applications, which can be obtained from guidance counselors, can be sent to East Jefferson Chapter of Puget Sound Anglers, P.O. Box 157, Port Townsend, WA 98368.
The deadline is May 9.
For more information, phone Jerry Johnson at 360-379-2855.
Research presented
WALLA WALLA — Madeline Duppenthaler, a 2012 graduate of Port Angeles High School, will present her original research Tuesday as part of the Whitman Undergraduate Conference.
The 18th annual conference brings together students from every academic area of the college to share their research and creative projects with the campus community.
The projects are a result of the students’ work in their courses, senior theses, summer internships and study abroad.
The conference will be at Whitman College, 345 Boyer Ave., Walla Walla.
Duppenthaler is a senior at Whitman College’s Osaka International School.
PTSLUG meets
CHIMACUM — PTSLUG, a Macintosh computer users group, will meet at the Tri-Area Community Center, 10 West Valley Road, on Thursday.
Bob Snow will give a presentation on the “love/hate relationship” between Mac devices and printers starting at 6:30 p.m.
The regular meeting starts at 7 p.m.
The public is invited to this free program.
For more information and summaries of previous sessions, visit www.ptslug.org.
Stars of Tomorrow
PORT TOWNSEND — The Kiwanis Club of Port Townsend put on its annual Stars of Tomorrow show March 20, showcasing 51 Jefferson County students.
There were 33 children singing, dancing and playing instruments in the Presentation Division, which includes grades pre-K-6, plus 18 performers in the Junior and Senior Divisions, which includes seventh-through-12th-graders.
This was the club’s 29th annual celebration of young community talent, held in the Port Townsend High School auditorium and headed by program chair Mary Crozier.
The top three acts in both the Junior and Senior Divisions won cash awards from the Kiwanis Club to help with further instruction and other expenses.
The top three acts in the Junior Division were:
■ First place, Madison Boyd, Chimacum Middle School eighth-grader, who sang “Elastic Heart.”
■ Second place, Liv Crecca, Blue Heron Middle School eighth-grader, who sang and played guitar in an original composition, “Together.”
■ Third place, Anna Tallarico, Port Townsend High freshman, who performed a dance to “Let Her Go.”
In the Senior Division, the top three were:
■ First place, Amelia Grant, Port Townsend High junior, who played on violin “Meditation from Thais.”
■ Second place, Forrest Brennan, Chimacum High School junior, who played a six-minute drum solo, “Asventuras.”
■ Third place, Alex Genaw, Port Townsend High senior, who played “Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind” on the guitar.
Special awards also presented this year, most of which involved selecting performers for local events this summer:
■ Forrest Brennan was chosen to play for the Fort Worden Fourth of July celebration and also the Uptown Street Fair on Aug. 20.
■ Liv Crecca was selected to perform at one of the Main Street “Concerts on the Dock” shows and also received the Nanda Award from Tomoki Sage.
■ Mia Torres, an eighth-grader who sang and played guitar; Amelia Grant, a junior who played violin; and the family group of Jason, Kailee, Leianna and Meigan Kunz, ninth- and 10th-graders who are known as the Wild Berry Pickers, a violin/bass ensemble, were selected to perform at the Jefferson County Fair this summer.
The Wild Berry Pickers were also selected to play at the All County Picnic on Aug. 21.
Mia was also selected by Mike DC for a recording session at his Seattle studio.
Holden Kenworthy, a sixth-grader, played a piano piece titled “Unity” to earn the “Most Inspirational” award.
Two final awards, called the Multi-Talent Award for each division, were given to Liv Crecca in the Junior Division and the Wild Berry Pickers in the Senior Division.
Math contest is a success
PORT ANGELES — Roosevelt Elementary School’s team “The Ridge,” made up of fifth- and sixth-graders, recently won Washington’s 2016 Algebra Challenge.
Over the course of two weeks, the class of 27 students completed 6,434 questions
The Ridge students beat Heron Middle School’s “Herons,” a class of 94 students in Port Townsend, along with 185 other classes.
There was a five-point margin between the Ridge class and the Herons.
Algebra Challenges are events run by the Center for Game Science at the University of Washington.
During the challenge period, students are encouraged to solve as many equations or story problems as possible.
For more information, visit www.algebrachallenge.org.
Honor society
BATON ROUGE, La. — Larissa Freier of Port Townsend was recently initiated into the Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi, a collegiate honor society for all academic disciplines.
Freier is pursuing a degree in music at the University of Puget Sound.
She is among approximately 30,000 students, faculty, professional staff and alumni to be initiated into Phi Kappa Phi each year.
